Driverless

HAVAL has now officially unveiled their latest ideas at Auto China 2018 in Beijing. Easily their most impressive was their first fully autonomous pure electric SUV, the WEY X. This concept, should it make it to production, will offer Level 5 autonomous driving (sometime around 2025), this means AI...

Yesterday the world changed. The first human, Elaine Herzberg, died as a result of an autonomous vehicle, travelling in autonomous mode. We all kind of knew this day may arrive, but hoped it wouldn’t. Understandably, there’s several investigations underway to determine how this could occur and ultimately who’s at fault....

Every automaker is working on autonomy and come early 2020’s, its going to be a critical checkbox to tick for customers. Hyundai Motor Company has teamed up with Aurora, a leader in autonomous vehicle technology, announcing self-driving Hyundai vehicles will be on the market by 2021. Hyundai vehicles will...

Elon Musk unveiled the mass-production Model 3 back in March, 2016, and owners have been receiving the vehicles. There is a feature yet, full autonomy, that’s highway and suburban streets, that is still on the ‘coming soon’, a promise for the future to owners. This feature actually costs a...

At CES Asia, Hyundai showed an autonomous concept car, joining a slew of other auto makers working on the technology. More interesting is Hyundai’s thoughts on what we’ll all be doing in the future when the cars are driving themselves. This photo is from Hyundai’s booth at CES Asia shows...

Roborace is a category in development, when complete we’ll see a grid of cars racing without human drivers. Instead the cars will be driven by the programmers who’ve developed video-game like AI to control vehicles and ultimate fight for first place at the end of the race. Roborace is to...

Tesla are rolling out their latest software upgrade to owners. We love when the phones we buy get better over time and having your car do the same is certainly the way of the future. In Autopilot 8.0 there’s some big changes when it comes to the hardware software architecture that combines...

Uber is in 507 cities worldwide right now and their successful model of employing drivers is about to change. In a post titled ‘Rethinking transportation‘ Uber CEO Travis Kalanick announced they were acquiring Otto. The startup has just over 90 employees, but those employees have been working on a very important puzzle...

After years of slowly walking their way to higher levels of driver assists, Ford have finally announced a bold development plan for the future. In 2021, just 5 years from now, are planning on selling (in high-volume), fully autonomous SAE level 4-capable vehicles. The most common application of this is expected to...